St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-19

witnessed i'll San francisco Oh 0ie JUL
Fally five inches of snow fell.
TuV centennial of the colonization OF |
Australia is to be celebrated by great |
international exhibition at Melbourne i'll |
1888.
T.. G.. MORE. of Missouri, has been nomi- |
mated by the President as Cousul-General |
to the City of Mexico to succeed MIR. |
Porch.
LOCKOUT of cutters and trimmers en-
ployed in the wholesale clothing business
at Philadelphia was announced TO take
place on the 18th.
BooDLENAS THOMAS CLEARY. OF New
York. was in the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner on the It'll. ana his case was post
poned to the 10th inst
MANY people in St. Louis felt an earth
quake shock about four o'clock on the
morning of the 9th The shock was felt
generally throughout Illinois.
A NORTH CAROLINA court on the TIN,
found S. 200 verdict against the western
Union Telegraph Company for an error IN
a telegram for the purchase OF cotton
futures.
RrMOR has it that court circles at Copen-
hagen are scandalized by our Minister to
Denmark. Mr. Rasmus B. Anderson,
naturalized citizen of Wisconsin, living in
garrett
SERVICES were held in Lambeth Palace
chapel at London, on the 4th, to common
crate the conservation there in 1857 OF the
first bishops of the Episcopal church in
America.
Mrs. CLEVELAND, having succeeded in
heading off the unlimited guests, has re-
sumed her Tuesday and Thursday recep-
tons Cheek will not pass the portals
hereafter
IT is officially announced that the full
correspondence between the governments
of Great Britain and the United States
over the Canadian fisheries troubles will
soon be made public.
REPORTS from Evansville, Ind, and other
Ohio River points. on the 4th, were to the
effect that the water was rising rapidly
and that the low lands in many places
were submerged. Several casualties were
reported.
THE BerAnsr Nachrichten says that Gener-
al Won Moltke, in receiving deputatlon
of Conservative electors, declared that the
nolitical situation was most serious, and
authorized the deputation to give publlcl-
ty to his statement.
OVER two hundred men employed IN
j. T. Thompson & Co.'s steel works at
Jersey City, N. j., have quit work, and the
factory is idle Walking delegates Or
dered them out because ''scab'' coal was
being used in the furnaces.
ALL the special dispatches received IN
London from Milan descriptive of the
public performance Of Verdi's "Otello" on
the 9Th concur in the opinion that the new
opera may be classed among the purest
and highest forms of operate art
CM. CLAY, of Kentucky, in letter to
the Presidn mt, says it is better to nave
pleuro-pncumonia, smallpox and cholera
spread over the United States than &c
suffer the ravages which will result from
the importation of Australian rabbits.
THE first annual convention OF the iron
roof manufacturers of the United States
met at Canton, O., on the Sth, delegates
being present from twelve cities. Inc
meeting was to last two days, the object
being to prevent ruinous cutting in prices.
IT is understood that the British Gov
eminent has definitely decided not tc
grant permission to the Queens Own
Rifles. of Toronto, and Royal Scots, o.
Montreal to visit England next summer tx
take part in the Queens jubilee celebra
ton.
MARTIN w. MCLEAN, treasurer of the
Te,egraphers' Mutual Aid and Literary
Association of Boston, has been missing
since January IS, and the officers of thu
association have reason to believe that hi
has got away with nearly 500 belonging
to them.
Prince BISMARCK has caused the cir
cuIation of a notice that it is the desire Of
the Emperor in view of the rest and qule
which his extreme age requires, tnat th'
people abstain from noisy demonstra
tinns of enthusiasm on the occasion of hi
next birthday.
Lorenzo Snow was released from tn
Utah penitentiary on the Sth, in conse
auence OF the United States Supreme
Courts decision, given on the 9TH, revers
ing the decision of the Territorial Court
the legality of the segregating offense c
unlawful cohabitatlon. The Mormon
consider it high vindiction OF thel
principles.
THE Montreal express on the Vernon
Central railway was thrown from
bridge by broken rail near White Rive
junction, VT, on the morning of the 5tf
fal ling distance of fifty feet to the rive
below. The cars took fire and nearly fit
persons were either killed by the fall c
were burned to death. The bridge wa
also burned. A large number were yer
serious ly injured The passengers wei
mostly en- route to the Montreal ice ca
nival, but met, instead, a carnival {
death.